The former site of Stone Construction Equipment Inc. is expected to reopen as a third location for Commodore Technology. A custom-packaging company with locations in East Bloomfield and Canandaigua, Commodore plans to open on Main Street in the former Stone building for light manufacturing and warehouse space by the end of the summer.

Renovations are taking place now at Stone’s former manufacturing site following last month’s closing on the Commodore purchase.

Ontario County records show Ontario Holdings LLC (Commodore) bought the vacant property from Chesapeake Holdings Stone LLC, for $550,000. The purchase includes the former Stone Construction building and an early 20th-century school building that had also once housed manufacturing.

“We are excited about being in Honeoye,” said George Braddon III, Commodore’s president who founded the company in 1980. “It is a nice community and people have really opened their arms to us and we appreciate that.”

Commodore plans to bring between 30-and-40 employees to the Honeoye site from its locations at 26 Maple Ave. in Bloomfield and 215 Gorham St. in Canandaigua. Commodore is seeing a growth rate of about 5-to-10 percent a year, said Braddon. Last year the company added 30 new jobs.

“This is great for our town,” said Town Supervisor Ralph Angelo. “This will no longer be a vacant building and we will have business going in again.”

After more than 60 years and employing more than 200 workers at its peak, Stone Construction closed in March 2012. A month later, Minnesota-based Toro Co. announced its purchase of the employee-owned assets and its plan to employ Stone’s employees during a several-months transition period before moving production to facilities in Nebraska and Minnesota.

Braddon said Commodore will tear down the old school building and have more than enough room in the renovated former Stone building to expand operations in the 120,000 square feet, while perhaps also renting office space to another business.